Effectiveness of Sweden's Contact Family/Person Program for Older Children

Autor/inn/en	Brännström, Lars; Vinnerljung, Bo; Hjern, Anders
Titel	Effectiveness of Sweden's Contact Family/Person Program for Older Children
Quelle	In: Research on Social Work Practice, 25 (2015) 2, S.190-200 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1049-7315
DOI	10.1177/1049731514524446
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Family Programs; Mental Health; Drug Use; Welfare Recipients; Children; Longitudinal Studies; Outcomes of Treatment; Academic Achievement; Case Records; Followup Studies; Intervention; At Risk Students; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; Delinquency Prevention; Preadolescents; Outcome Measures; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Family program; Familienprogramm; Psychohygiene; Drug consumption; Substance abuse; Drogenkonsum; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin; Child; Kind; Kinder; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Schulleistung; Case reports; Fallsammlung; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Schweden
Abstract	Objectives: To estimate the impacts of Sweden's Contact Family/Person Program (CFPP) for older children on participants' long-term outcomes related to mental health problems, illicit drug use, public welfare receipt, placement in out-of-home care, educational achievement, and offending. Method: We analyzed longitudinal register data on more than 1,000,000 individuals born between 1973 and 1984, including 6,386 individuals who entered CFPP at 10-13 years of age, with a follow-up until 2008. The program impact was estimated by means of propensity score matching. Results: Outcomes for those who had received the intervention were not better than that for matched peers who did not receive the intervention. Conclusions: The results did not find support for CFPP effectiveness in reducing risks of compromised long-term development in older children. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01